The last thing I did on Friday was to put a note to myself on the monitor. I forget everything, and I did not want to forget my appointment with Barbara Higgins.
Miss Sadie and the Cowboy are feeling smug. Yesterday’s mail brought an exciting package from our friend Loreen Niewenhuis, stamped MEDIA MAIL. Inside was an advance copy of A 1000-Mile Walk on the Beach, the book Loreen wrote about her year-long trek around Lake Michigan. Inside the book there is a chapter about the […]
Karen, who visits Torch Lake Views on a regular basis and blogs over at Karma’s When I Feel Like It Blog, asked for my advice. Oh joy! Someone wants it! OK, she asked for advice from anyone who happened to drop by her blog that day. And then I got busy and went away for […]
I am in receipt of several remarks from Away to the effect that there are insufficient pictures of snow at Torch Lake Views. Where, lament the snowbirds, are the lovely piles of white stuff that gladden our hearts every December . . . while we are down here in Florida? Then they giggle.
It’s the time of year for trips to the attic. That, after all, is where the holiday decorations are, and the big roasting pan, and the treasures. A year or two ago I gave Rob the Firefighter and the Lady Alicia my Swedish straw ornaments, confident that I could make new ones. Ha. I could […]
We have been having an obsessive little week, what with several breakthroughs on the Civil War veterans front. I was casting about in vain for an interesting blog topic when bing! – up popped the weekly email from Babs, and not a moment too soon. She writes: I returned from Ohio today to a bit […]
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